Rereading a favorite novel first read 5, 10, or 20 years ago, is a measure of our travel, how far we've come; it's a way of visiting an earlier self.

If you read one book a week, starting at the age of 5, and live to be 80, you will have read a grand total of 3,900 books, a little over one-tenth of 1 percent of the books currently in print.

How do you press a wildflower into the pages of an e-book?

I am fatally attracted to all bookstores.

Books were in the world; the world was in books.

Books connect us with others, but that connection is created in solitude, one reader in one chair hearing one writer, what John Irving refers to as one genius speaking to another.

Books, I knew then and now, give body to our ideas and imaginations, make them flesh in the world; a bookstore is the city where our fleshed-out inner selves reside.

Books are slow. They require time; they are written slowly, published slowly, and read slowly.

The bookstore and the coffeehouse are natural allies; Neither has a time limit, slowness is encouraged.

Maturity and experience shouldn't stop one from craving silly things like sliding down bannisters.

If you read one book a week, starting at the age of 5, and live to be 80, you will have read a grand total of 3, 900 books, a little over one-tenth of 1 percent of the books currently in print.

Possession without understanding leads to loss

Candor disarms paranoia.

We are not consistent. We have both these dark sides and some light as well.

What we've done, it seems to me, is allow women to get older, but not to age.

My mom and dad have had a huge impact on my life, so I look up to them. As a actor, I would say Hugh Jackman.

I love getting a smile out of my girlfriend - that makes me feel like I'm seen, or heard.

Inherently, making a movie is tough because there's so much anticipation when it happens - even if everything goes well.

Genuine laughter is true eloquence and more effective than speech

If you're not working to get your business or investing operation to operate without you, you're thinking too small. Think team and systems.

We are bullish on the health benefits, but they have to bring value.